About Us

Internap at a Glance

Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) is an Internet solutions company founded in 1996. Our founders recognized that the Internet’s inherent technical limitations would hinder the growth potential for many companies who use the Internet to deliver products and services.

Then and now, our mission has been to deliver the technology, innovation, integrated solutions and business processes to offer products and services that have the availability, performance and support you need for your business.

When Time is Money

You likely face challenges each day to improve your IT business models. We offer solutions that enable you to provide The Ultimate Online Experience^® for your customers. Our patented route optimization technology, Managed Internet Route Optimizer^™ (MIRO), overcomes network performance issues such as latency and congestion, so that online retail, eCommerce, SaaS, cloud computing and other companies can deliver business value unimpeded by IT performance issues. Here are a few examples of the things we help companies to do every day:

• A streaming video site wants to grow to be a daily source of consumer entertainment. Every time a video goes viral on the site, our Content Delivery Network (CDN) provides the capacity-on-demand to handle the resulting traffic spikes, and the network performance to deliver the best possible video quality for all viewers.
• When a start-up delivers its solution in an on-demand cloud network approach, our unparalleled network performance and reliability provides the service transparency and performance to deliver the application to thousands of end-users every day without employing a huge support staff. We do this seamlessly and can scale with the customer’s growth.
• A popular eCommerce business focuses on enhancing its offerings in the marketplace. They choose Internap because they can rely on our experienced solutions architects to design and tailor their Managed Hosting solution, matching customers’ growth at every step.
• Millions of globally-networked gamers compete with each other around the clock. Each of them enjoys the highest-quality gaming experience because of the way our network services and CDN actively navigate around Internet roadblocks and scale to provide needed capacity.
• A groundbreaking company is exploring new opportunities unburdened by the investment costs and expertise required to design, build and manage data center assets. With access to Internap’s extensive data center infrastructure and managed services, it can focus on delivering services to target audiences faster, more cost-effectively and with greater flexibility than is possible with corporate-owned assets.

Internap’s History

Since our inception, we have focused on supporting the Internet evolution and keeping pace with the needs and challenges of our customers.

1996 – 1998: The buzz was about search engines, online auctions and financial trading. In lockstep with the trends, we released our patented route-control technology, MIRO, changing how some of the biggest names on the Internet leveraged it for their businesses with predictable performance, availability and service transparency.

1998 – 2002: The popularity of new applications over the Internet, such as gaming, advertising and the convenience of large file transfers put new and unpredictable demands on the Internet backbone. We were there with solutions that integrated MIRO into Colocation and Managed Hosting, solutions that offered improved levels of performance, and alternative approaches to implementing new business models in a more cost-effective manner.

2002 – 2007: Streaming media, VoIP, eLearning and the evolution of social networking gained momentum quickly and again changed traffic patterns, traffic types and the importance of predictable network performance. Our entry into the CDN arena meant we were the only provider offering our proprietary blend of high performance IT infrastructure and route optimization, together with solutions to deliver rich content, media and applications.

2007 – 2010: Recently, the explosion of new uses for mobility, social networks and Web 3.0 business models such as SaaS, hosting and cloud computing, along with the mainstream acceptance of streaming media, Video on Demand (VOD) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), are challenging traditional broadcast channels and creating new revenue streams. That’s why we continue to enhance our portfolio with new products, services and technologies, so any business dependent on online success can use the Internet to entertain, deliver, inform and connect with confidence and peace of mind.

New developments and applications put greater and greater demands on how you use the Internet for business. As we have in the past, we will continue to be there to support and grow with you as your needs evolve.